| ZKS Stal Rzeszów | |
| Fullname: | Works Sports Club Stal Rzeszów (Polish: Zakładowy Klub Sportowy Stal Rzeszów) |
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| City: | Rzeszów,  Poland |
ZKS Stal Rzeszów is a multi-sports club, currently best known for its association football and motorcycle speedway sections, although with huge successes in diving and wrestling.
The club possesses an acrobatics section.
See main article: Stal Rzeszów (football). Founded in 1944 as one of the first sections of the club. They won the Polish Cup in 1975, and despite limited success overall, remains a popular club in the city.
The boxing section of the club boast several national championship medals,[1] and boasts professional boxer Łukasz Różański.[2]
The club possesses a cycling section.
The diving section of the ZKS Stal Rzeszów club, was established in 1985. Then, coach Ryszard Wojtaszewski selected several children from the acrobatics section with whom he began training at the pool. The first successes came in the first year of the section's existence, when Marta Tomkiewicz won the second place in the springboard jumping competition at the 12th National Youth Spartakade. In the following years, the section developed very dynamically, bringing up many great athletes. One of the greatest achievements of the sports section is the education of the Olympian Grzegorz Kozdranski.
Ice hockey section of the club existed between 1953 and 1961.
See main article: Stal Rzeszów (motorcycle speedway). A currently independent club, the motorcycle speedway former section of the sports club is one of the most decorated teams in the sport, winning a vast number of medals.
The wrestling section of Stal Rzeszów was established in 1959, and its creators were coach Jan Małek and activists Waldemar Pasternak and Józef Ziembicki.[3] After three years, in 1962, the team was promoted to the regional league of Kraków and Rzeszów. In 1967 the Stal team was promoted to the 1st league.[4] Promotion was won by athletes who were at the beginning of their careers, winning medals at the Polish Junior Championships. In 1967, Stal won the silver medal at the Central Spartakiad. After a year of performances in the highest league, Stal were relegated, but in 1968 they were promoted to the first league. In 1969 Stal won the Polish team championship for the first time. In total, Stal Rzeszów became an 18-time Polish team wrestling champion (last time in 1990).[5] [6] Moreover, the team won the silver medal several times (1970, 1978, 1984, 1991).[7]
In the early 1990s, Wojciech Małek was the leading coach in the wrestling section of Stal.[8] Other well-known athletes of the section are Jan Falandys.